Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.